A locally recurrent head and neck nodal, B cell nodular, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma transformed to a diffuse histologic pattern with a peculiar bone marrow and epiglottic involvement without other apparent localizations is reported. Radiotherapy proved highly effective for local control of the epiglottic lesion but chemotherapy failed to eradicate bone marrow disease.
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